Will the Tennessee Titans be in a position to have flexibility for free agency when the 2021 offseason rolls around next year?
According to Jason Fitzgerald of Over the Cap, the Titans indeed will.
Fitzgerald did a rundown of each team’s “salary cap health” for next offseason based on estimated cap space and the amount of cap space a team can open up with cuts or restructures.
As it turns out, the Titans are in pretty good shape and fall into Tier 2 of the rankings. Here’s a look at the numbers.
| Estimated Cap Space | Max Cap Space w/ Cuts | Max Cap Space w/ Restructures | FA Score | Avg. Rank |
| $56.3 million | $117.4 million | $103.2 million | 22.85 | 11 |
When compared to the rest of the AFC South, the Titans are projected to be in worse shape than the Indianapolis Colts and Jacksonville Jaguars, with both teams falling into Tier 1. The Houston Texans land in Tier 3.
Having flexibility is always important, but even more so for next year.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter recently reported that he’s hearing the NFL’s salary cap could go down by anywhere from $30 to $80 million if games are played without fans due to coronavirus restrictions.
“The various estimates I’ve gotten from executives to owners is that the cap could be down anywhere $30 million to $80 million in 2021,” Schefter said on the “My Sports Update Football Podcast”.
This means that the current salary cap total, which sits at about $198 million, could go as low as under $120 million in 2021. That would be a mind-blowing decrease for teams to deal with.
According to Forbes, the NFL could lose up to $5.5 billion in team stadium revenue if fans can’t attend games in 2020, which works out to about 38 percent of the league’s total revenue.
The Titans could lose up to $110 million in stadium revenue with no fans at games, the fifth-lowest amount in the NFL. That wouldn’t be an easy pill to swallow for a smaller market team like Tennessee.
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